See more ideas about submarines, german submarines and boat. An adaptation of lothargunther buchheims 1973 german novel of the same name, the film is set during. Elokuvan tuotti gunter rohrbach, ja sen paaosissa nayttelevat jurgen prochnow, herbert gronemeyer ja klaus wennemann. German submarine u96 was a type viic uboat of nazi germanys kriegsmarine during world war ii. Buchheim also wrote a trilogy of nonfiction books about the battle of the atlantic, the first of which is available in english translation uboat war 1986. Januar im zdf erstmals staffel eins des wolfgangpetersenklassikers im freetv zu sehen. As the original film s plot ends in december 1941, the series setting takes place nine months later, in 1942. The film, along with the book by the same name, was based on a true story, recorded by lothargunther buchheim. Crew of german uboat, u664, prepare to go over side of ship during attack by two. Her keel was laid down on 16 september 1939, by germaniawerft, of kiel as yard number 601.
It is almost impossible to condense the incredibly long, tense, and terrifying life of uboat combat into a picture. Shop vinyl and cds and complete your u 96 collection. The film then shows us one such boat sent out into the atlantic in the autumn of 1941, and for most of the running time we do not leave this space there are just 20 minutes or so at the beginning and a. The movie lasts between 150 and almost 300 minutes.
Wie ublich wurde dieser film in video hd hohe auflosung fur kinoprojektion oder blurays mit dolbydigitalaudio gefilmt. Description provided by wikipedia under creative commons attribution ccbysa 4. They had to sacrifice some accuracy for dramatic effect. John sturges was initially called by edward pressman to make the film. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comic con sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled. It was stunning, i saw it in german with subtitles and hearing the crew speak german. To this day, it holds the record for the most academy award nominations for a german film. With better escorts of the destroyer class, however, german uboats have begun to take heavy losses. It has been exhibited both as a theatrical release and as a tv miniseries, in several different home video versions of various running times, and in a directors cut version supervised by petersen in 1997. German submarine u96 1940 german submarine u96 was a type viic uboat of nazi germanys kriegsmarine during world war ii. I saw this movie for the first time when it was released in theaters in 1982.